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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 13, 2009 - 06:48pm PT
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DNA is yesterday.
The latest technology - document de-shredding.
Now available in all the primary languages used in the G-20 states. The invention breaks ground in the mechanical/scanning side. Loads from a hopper. Even cross-shredding can't beat it.
The hopper performs a two-sided scan on each shred. This is the really amazing part of the invention.
The software applies techniques used in genome mapping and pattern recognition to put back each piece virtually, very much like assembling a jig-saw puzzle (when you don't even have the picture to work from).
Consider each language like a separate species. Well enough about the technology.
On average, if you know the language of the document, speeds of up to 500 pages have been de-shredded to 98.4% accuracy in 27 hours!
Should access to this be licensed? Limited to law enforcement?
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jstan
climber
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May 13, 2009 - 06:55pm PT
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Why shred?
Burn.
Then at the end if you have any doubts, stir up the ashes. Breaks the document down to pieces several microns on a side at most.
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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May 13, 2009 - 07:28pm PT
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and so the solution comes full circle, back to basics.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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May 13, 2009 - 07:33pm PT
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whoa,
how much for a de-shredding set up?
look at the cost, divide by the number of years on average it takes to have something become ubiquitous.
that's when we will be officially screwed by scope creep/incrementalism of Panoptic techniques.
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ryanb
climber
Seattle, WA
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May 13, 2009 - 07:42pm PT
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Shred?... Scan?
...people still use paper?
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2009 - 07:50pm PT
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Sure, did you ever try to destroy a hard drive?
You trust e-mail?
Funny thing is, the old shredder debris was the hardest problem to solve. It was really difficult to scan long twisty pieces of paper. Then one of the geniuses on the team came up with the brilliant and obvious solution (obvious in retrospect, of course) saving a bundle of engineering.
He built a sort of iron-like device that feeds the stringy shreds into a cross-shredder.
Don't even look for the patent. When you patent, you have to publish the whole solution for the whole world to look at.
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